At MAX Europe in Barcelona I attended a session on Flash video in which Jens Loeffler of Adobe outlined the upcoming DRM features in Flash video. This was the first time I heard any technical details on how this DRM approach will work and what it can do. What follows is my approach at summarising what I gathered and a series of photos of all the DRM related slides that were shown. As announced previously, Adobe is planning to offer two forms of digital rights management which they call content integrity (slide) and identity-based licensing (slide). In a nutshell the former means that a particular piece of content is only playable if it has not been altered, which is important if you as a content owner want to ensure for example that a pre-roll video ad is always part of the main content.

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Adobe’s CEO Bruce Chizen discussed the company’s relevancy in the Web 2.0 era at the Web 2.0 Summit. And surprise, surprise, Flash is a huge part of that relevancy.

InformationWeek has an interesting article about Chizen’s session at the summit, in which he points out areas where Flash is playing a major role these days. These include places like YouTube and Flickr and even video game consoles such as the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii.

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We all know that Adobe is pushing put new products and services at an insane rate these days. Apart from announcing Share at MAX in Chicago there were two other products which caught my attention and which are very exciting and a bit scary at the same time: Pacifica and CoCoMo.

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Adobe will not allow third party streaming servers to stream H.264 video or AAC Audio into the Flash Player?

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The goal of Silverlight is to get into the game, not to add anything new of value. If you look at the feature set on a pure technology basis, Silverlight has 80% less features and 98% less compatibility than Adobe Flash Player.

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Adobe announced the upcoming release of Flash Media Server 3 at IBC in Amsterdam. The next version will offer significant performance gains as well as a new enhanced (and encrypted) RTMP protocol to support new content protection features. Pricing has not been made available at this stage.

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I remember starting off beta testing huge bunch of ActionScript codes from Joey Lott which was supposed to be for the ActionScript 2.0 CookBook.

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This is huge. Darren Lee of fczone.com has released an Eclipse plugin which adds support for FMS’s AS1-based server side code to Eclipse or Flex Builder 3.

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You know Justin, don’t you? The guy who’s broadcasting himself 24/7 with a camera strapped to his head.His site justin.tv has recently started a transformation into a live broadcasting platform for people like you and me but is for now limited to a selected set of broadcasters with the intention of opening it up to a broader audience - reminds me a bit of ustream.tv.

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We all know that Flash video is everywhere these days but what surprises me is how little quality control appears to be applied to the footage that big brands push out these days.

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